On 17 Jul 2009, at 07:03, Kassen wrote:
Last night I found a bit of a odd issue with a touchpad on a laptop running Linux. I tried to open the mouse as a HID device and it correctly found the one mouse attached, being the build in touchpad which it described as acting through ps2 (I believe that's normal for touchpads). The odd thing is that ChucK didn't get any data from it when moving my finger over it or clicking the buttons.
Sorry, I was thinking about a graphics tablet. I'm looking on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human_interface_device_class The HID protocols are evidently only for USB connections. So if your trackpad is acting through PS/2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2#Keyboard.2Fmouse_interfac... that is a different API. Don't know how that works - the last one I saw was on a Mac made in the mid-1990s. Hans